| Muraltia.] POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 105 
ae Mts. of Swellendam and Uitenhage, E. & Z.! &e. (Herb, T.C.D., Hook., 
Scarcely to be kept distinct from those varieties of M. alopecuroides, in which the 
filiform leaves are in excess, and the lanceolate few and scattered. The flowers are 
more scattered and the whole plant more slender and more glabrous than ordinary 
M. alopecuroides, but of the same pale colour. Burchell’s original specimen is even 
less glabrous than those we describe. : 
24. M. alopecuroides (DC. Prod. 1. p. 335); erect or diffuse, with 
virgate, downy branches ; leaves fascicled, the lower ones linear-subu- 
late and semi-terete, or squarrose and linear, with a small pungent 
mucro, upper very densely imbricated, lanceolate, acuminate, flat, mid-ribbed, 
mucronulate, ciliate, pubescent or glabrous ; fl. sessile, crowded towards 
the ends of the branches ; calyx one-third of corolla, sepals oval-oblong, 
mucronulate ; petals as long as keel, broadly linear, tapering to an ob- 
tuse point ; capsule rather shorter than the slender filiform horns. Pol. 
pecuroides, Linn., Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 557. Bot. Mag. t. 1006, M. 
squarrosa, E, & Z,! 213; and M. Burchell, 212 ; and M. virgata, E. § 
Z.1 210, Drege, No. 7232-7235, 7244, 7247-7250! = | 
Var. a. latifolia; linear leaves few and confined to the bases of the )@,. Vere Ww 
branches, which are densely imbricated throughout nearly their whole _ Vel 
length with broadly lanceolate-acuminate and pungent leaves. Drege, A 
7249, 7232, &e. 
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